Tsychotria.'\ lxxv. etjbiacbj:. (J. D. Hooker.) 169 



Shrubby. Leaves 5-7 by 1-24 in., green when dry, rather thin, base narrowed 

 into a petiole ^-J in., nerves slender; stipules with often 2 recurved acute lobes. 

 CyTnes 1 in. diam., often inclined; branches flattened, soon dividing; bracts elongate, 

 slender. Calyx minute; teeth broad or narrow, subacute, sometimes glandular. 

 ■CoroUa^tabe very short, hairy within. Fruit ^-i in., red and yellowish, grooves 

 shallow. 8eed undulated on the ventral face. — This is one of the very few species 

 that wanders westward as far as the valley of Nipal. 



Vae. latifolia ; leaves broadly elliptic. — Khasia Mts., Be Silva. — Psychotria sp.. 

 Wall. Cat. 8340. 



Vae. pedMnculata ; cymes axillary, peduncle 1-2 in. — Nipal, WaMich. — Psychotria, 

 Wall. Cat. 8369. 



29. P. fiilva, Ham. in Wall. Cat. 8336, excl. B. ; glabrous or pubescent, 

 branches stout, leaves petioled elliptic oblong obovate or lanceolate, stipules 

 large cleft, cymes axillary and terminal pedunojed or sessile, branches trichoto- 

 mous or whorled, flowers usually in dense globose heads, bracts broad often 

 whorled persistent, fruit large ellipsoid 8-grooved, calyx-limb persistent. P. 

 monticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soe. 1872, ii. 315 ; For. Fl. ii. 11. Psychotria, 

 Wall. Cat. 8337 ; Qriff. Notul. iv. 268 ; le. Fl. Asiat. t. 479, f. 2. 



Assam and the Khasia Mts., ascending to 4000 ft. ; Caohae, Munnipoee, and 

 Pegu. 



A large shrub. Leaves a foot long and under, very variable in breadth, usually 

 narrowed into the petiole, rarely rounded at the base, variously coloured when dry, 

 often purplish-brown or reddish, thinly coriaceous ; nerves slender, spreading, soine- 

 times pubescent beneath ; petiole -1-1 in. ; stipules J-1 in., axils villous, segments 

 sometimes hooked and recurved. Cymes large or small, rarely 2 in. across ; peduncle 

 4 in. or less, pubescent or villous ; branches stout, short or long ; bracts and bracteoles 

 excessively variable, more or less persistent ; flowers subsessile, glabrous or pubescent. 

 - Calyx minute ; teeth 5, short or long. Corolla-tube short, glabrous, villous within. 

 Fruit capitate, ^J in. long, variable in shape, ellipsoid or ovoid, sometimes narrowed 

 towards the top ; grooves very shallow. Seed flat ventrally, with or without a 2-fid 

 -groove. — A very variable plant, covered with yellowish flowers in May, whence its 

 name, which, never having been published, would be superseded by Kurz's of P. mon- 

 ticola, were not the plant to which he gave that n.T,me an aberrant form, which is 

 moreover erroneously described as glabrous in the Forest Flora ; under which circum- 

 stances, and considering that the name monticola has been since applied to a tropical 

 African species, it is advisable to retain Hamilton's appropriate one of fulva for this 

 species. 



Vae. monticola; leaves more coriaceous, nerves distant pubescent beneath. P. 

 monticola, Kurz in Journ. As. Soc. 1872, ii. 315; For. Fl. ii. 11. — Karen hills, 



30. P. tortilis, Blume Bijd. 958 ; subherbaceous, stem simple, leaves 

 long-petioled broadly elliptic-ovate acute membranous puberulous beneath, base 

 cuneate rarely cordate, nerves 15-20 pair, veins reticulate, cymes all axillary 

 small subsessile rounded, fruit very small didymous compressed, grooves 8 very 

 :shallow. DC. Prodr. iv. 620. P. miorocarpa, Wdl. Cat. 8344. Streblosa 

 tortilia, Km-th. in Ned. Kruidk. Arch. ii. 246. 



Penano, Wallich ; Singapoee, Lobb. — Disteib. Java, Sumatra. 



Stem 1 foot from a woody base, sparsely pubescent. Leaves 4-7 by 2-iJin., green 

 when dry, very membranous ; nerves spreading, slender ; petiole very slender, 1-2 in. ; 

 stipules ovate, acute, or broader with a long cusp. Cymes often from all the axils, 

 pubescent, contracted and dense-flowered but not capitate; pedicels rarely 1-2 in.; 

 bracts very small ; flowers minute. C'ffi?ya;-te<A very minute, triangular. Corolla-tube 

 very short, hairy within. Fruit ytts ™- diam., broader than long, pale. Seed flat 

 on the ventral face. — A very peculiar species, quite unlike any other in habit and 

 fruit. 



